Norah Jones Quotes

You would never catch me in a miniskirt.

Your limitations create your sound.

You know, when you have a father who’s pretty well known but you don’t see him, the last thing you want to do is start talking about him all the time to people.

When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably ’cause I missed something about Texas.

What I was going for in the first two albums I didn’t necessarily achieve. Because I was young and because it was my first time out. And the second album was such a ‘quickie’ sort of ‘Let’s just get it over with!’ But the kind of music I make, there’s a lot of subtlety in it. And I think it takes a couple of listens to actually really get it.

The pop world is cool, but I never really thought of myself as part of it or wanting to be a part of it because I’m on a label that’s not really like that. They’re not trying to dress me up, they’re not trying to do things like that. I feel like I’m sort of separate from that, actually.

There was an enormous amount of pressure when my first album took off, and I struggled with the speed of everything and the exhaustion from the constant touring.

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

Songs are about whatever you want them to be about. For me it might mean something completely different than what it means to you. So I’d say it’s about whatever the listener thinks it’s about.

Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don’t have very many songs but I really love it. I would love to be a great song writer some day.

People will read into what you say no matter what, so it doesn’t matter to me.

Sometimes when you’re trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there’s something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that’s always been difficult for me. I’m a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.

On the first album I was saying, that’s just one part of me. And then I was thinking, well, am I going to hide the rest of me now just because I’m afraid of something? No. I’m just going to be myself.

Nobody can tell you you’re wrong for writing a song about how you feel – even if you don’t really feel that way.

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn’t because I wanted to make simple music. It’s because I don’t really have the chops.

Maybe I’m genetically more inclined to music – but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!

Making records is fun. It’s not some big statement. You’re allowed to make mistakes.

It’s true, there’s a lot of melancholy in my music. I don’t know why, I’m not a melancholy person. I’ve always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.

If you’re a female and you get asked by someone who shoots the most beautiful female scenes to be in their film, it’s kind of exciting.